Day 036: Wood Stork Hospital Bird

Year 1

In Europe storks are looked upon as good luck, and people hope that these birds will nest upon their roofs. Throughout western civilization the stork is often identified with delivering new babies to happy families. Given I am unexpectedly down in Florida dealing with my Dad’s surgery, it seems appropriate I found this Wood Stork to photograph outside the hospital in a nearby pond while I was taking a quick break. I hope the stork is bringing my family good luck.

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Day 035: Sunshine Finale Magpie

Year 1

I had expected to be taking photographs of magpies and crows for 10 to 12 more days, but sometimes life throws you a curve ball. Instead of finishing up my volunteer work at Snow Mountain Ranch deep in the Colorado Rockies, I will be flying down to Florida in a few hours to help my Dad who has emergency surgery today.

Before catching my shuttle to the Denver airport, I had a few minutes to look for today’s bird. This magpie not only obliged, but posed in the pine tree next to my room. Florida should have lots more birds, and no snow.

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Day 034: Purple Finch Buds

Background

We descended two thousand today, and learned that Spring lives at lower elevations in the Rockies (5,750 feet). Found this purple finch singing and feeding on new tree buds. Back to magpies and crows tomorrow! The photo was a bit of a stretch for my telephoto lens as this finch was at the top of a very tall tree.

As I work through this project, the Digital Photography School has proven an excellent resource for continuing to learn about the process of taking pictures. Here is a great recent post of theirs which reviews some important considerations to which one should pay attention when taking photographs of birds.

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